Improvement in coach-doors



PEN FIELD & WOOLSEY.

Coach Door.

Patented Oct. 12, 1869.

nited games stent @dimite Letters Patent No. 95,832, dated October 12, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COACH-DOORS,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern 4Be it known that we, J AMES PENFIELD and DAVID F. WOOLSEY, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in vInside Handles for Coach- Doors; and we do hereby declare that thefollowingis a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1, ofthe drawings, is a yrepresentation ot' our invention attached to a coach-door, as it appears from without. i

Figure 2 is a representation of the same, viewed from the inside, with lining or flap of door removed to show the mechanism.

Our invention relatesto coach-doors, and consists mainly in lthe.construction and novel arrangement of devices, whereby the door can be readily opened from the inside.

The letter A, of the drawings, designates a coachdoor.

B, a metal plate let into the `top of' the door, and having two cheeks, between which the lever C is secured by the pivot o.

The lever C, forming a slight elbow or bend 'at the pivot c, extends down, and is pivoted to one end of the barb, the otherend of which is pivoted to the free end of the lever D.

The 'lever D is rigidly secured to the end of the spindle E which passes through the tumbler of the lock.

The handle of the lever C, at its upper end, is the only part of this mechanism visible, and may be carved and ornamented in any suitablernanner.

It will readily appear, that by operating the handle of the lever O, the bolt of thelock wili'be easily drawn.

This system of leverage is entirely concealed by the ap or lining of the door, and, therefore, cannot in any way catch in the clothing ofthe passengers.

The. parts are so simple that it will seldom get ont of order, and so light that it will not interfere with the motion of the look.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lhe inside handle herein described, having operating lever C, pitman b, and lever I), in combination with the spindle E, of the tumbler of the lock of .a

coach door, constructed and arranged to operate suhstantially. as specified.

In testimony that we claim the above, we have hereunto subscribed'our names, in the presence oi' two witnesses.

JAMES PENFIELD. DAVID F. WOOLSEY.

Witnesses:

W. E. PAYsoN, JOHN H. PROUD. 

